Little Dark Age
MGMT’s music has always pinballed between accessibility and experiment, pop, and psychedelia—a tension that has produced some of the catchiest, most synapse-stretching music of the young century. Reining in the freak-outs of 2013’s *MGMT*, the band’s fourth album plumbs their (relatively) accessible side, refracting ’80s-style synth-pop (“Little Dark Age,” “One Thing Left to Try”) and ’60s jangle folk (“When You Die”) through a warped, surrealistic sense of humor—a sound at once cheerful and violent, eerie and inviting, light and thrillingly dark.
MGMT’s fourth album marks a shift in tactics. Abandoning the belabored excess of their last two albums, they opt for streamlined synth-pop.
Little Dark Age is proof that MGMT are nowhere near done with inter dimensional meddling.
The psychedelic indie heroes make a surprise return to pop with their fun-tastic fourth album
The psych-pop duo spool out concise tunes and a likable Luddite message on their fourth LP.
After hitting it very big with their debut album and the song "Kids," MGMT dedicated themselves to making albums that would confuse and annoy people looking to hear more expansive, radio-friendly tunes like "Kids."
It's an unfair fact of life that every new MGMT album must be compared to their 2008 breakthrough Oracular Spectacular. In the decade since...
After a four-and-a-half year break, MGMT is back with their fourth album, Little Dark Age.
More than ten years have passed since Andrew Van Wyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, better known as MGMT, released their now revered debut album
More than 10 years on from their debut 'Oracular Spectacular', MGMT's fourth LP is tongue-in-cheek set of songs about death, blowing out brains and telling people to go fuck themselves.
For better or worse, Little Dark Age is an album for its time: moody, backward-looking, a little depressed.
Review of 'Little Dark Age' by MGMT: MGMT's newest record is their best in a decade, a delightful 80s synthpop throwback with a dark sense of humour.
After two albums of wilfully awkward music seemingly designed to lose them fans, the duo return with some unironically gorgeous melodies and a dash of hallucinogenic weirdness